The neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease (HD) is typically characterized by extensive loss of striatal neurons and the midlife onset of debilitating and progressive chorea, dementia, and ...

The company that helped create Dolly may follow the cloned sheep to an early grave. PPL Therapeutics announced on 18 June that its leading project, an attempt to harvest therapeutic proteins from the ...

Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a "good" type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 29 (July 21, 2015), pp. 8874-8878 (5 pages) Domestic animals can be cloned using techniques such as ...

A recent discovery that eight captive sheep can discriminate familiar from unfamiliar human faces from a variety of perspectives has rocked the world of those who study animal cognition as well as ...

A genetically modified sheep has become the world’s first to be cloned using worm DNA. The male sheep – named “Peng Peng” – was created by Chinese scientists who took genes from a roundworm and ...

People with a deficiency of AAT are at risk for emphysema as a result of low levels of AAT in the lungs in the presence of neutrophil elastase. 3 To evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of ...